So with food, there's a certain food that you're hooked on. You want it at a certain time of day. It might be 8:30 at night, and your refrigerator becomes magnetic. And it's specific.

Obsessions about food or food addiction can often go along with an obsessive focus on relationships. When one is active, the other is dormant. Emptiness may be the cause of both.

So, to resolve the controversies about whether food addiction is a true construct, and whether abstinence-based treatment paradigms will help or hurt, factual, well-designed, fair, non-industry ...